---
type: "Bill"
title: "Carroll County - Volunteer Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Medical Services"
description: "Carroll County - Volunteer Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Medical Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 984"
citation: "Maryland HB 984 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties - Local Laws", "Carroll County", "Committees and Commissions", "County Commissioners", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fire Protection", "Rescue Squads", "Revenue and Taxes", "Salaries and Compensation", "Volunteers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carroll County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f94ad9c3-7d56-4829-ba91-75ebd685bd9d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB984&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "966af0f8d82043093d34e6a2fc229bc18cfb666a0de3fba3b6045d3d7c63887a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 984 (2018) — Carroll County - Volunteer Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Medical Services

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0984f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carroll County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 268 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f94ad9c3-7d56-4829-ba91-75ebd685bd9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).